“At the time of entering the long-awaited Gala, he had to abandon the party to go under the controls.”

CPA President Gianni Bugno criticised anti- doping inspectors who called on Quick-Step’s Pieter Serry during Het Nieuwsblad’s Flandrian Gala, rather than during the window on his mandatory WADA whereabouts form. Bugno said that though the process had to be respected, testers should respect the riders.

“The guy who won the Tour de France, he has been Olympic champion, he has been world champion, and he’s supporting Lance Armstrong, who has been banned for life for cheating.” UCI President David Lappartient expresses his distaste for Bradley Wiggins’s decision to laud Lance Armstrong as an icon in the Briton’s new book on his heroes.